K-type star · orange

Rhombus

Rhombus is an orange in the constellation Reticulum 162 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,957 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 99.54× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 162 years ago.

162 lybrightness mag 3.33G7III

Also catalogued as Alpha Ret · HR 1336 · HD 27256 · HIP 19780

4,957 K
temperature
3.33
apparent magnitude
99.54× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G7III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
162 years
at light speed from Earth
0.86×
as hot as the Sun
99.54×
the Sun's light output
-0.14
absolute magnitude
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RhombusK-type
Sky regionReticulumthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Reticulum

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.